I hate to tell you this. It isn't because the threat has gone away. This is not uplifting.

It's just the first time they've been named....

Also as far as I know they weren't freed when concentration camps were because homosexuality was a crime so they just got taken to a normal prison for the duration of their sentence....

You should look up the one in Utrecht. 12.500 spots as opposed to the 7.000 in Amsterdam. It's just not under water (yet).

Speaking of climate have you heard of Oulu?

r/boringdystopia

Plenty of cars on the roads, but yeah. We like to cycle. You've probably seen this map of bike lanes before.

That's super cool. Thanks for the info!

That’s a fair rebuttal since I’ve only done some of that

Ok, but does this kill bacteria indiscriminately? I have concerns for my skin flora, gut flora and other populations of organisms that science has not yet identified that support healthy human existence.

100% this, those photos people know of nazi book burnings are largely of them burning the literature from the institut für Sexualwissenschaft. They estimate this destruction set the field of research back half a century

Clearly you've never been to the Netherlands. EVERYONE bikes, there are hardly any cars on the roads, this is how people get around and for a country the size of Connecticut they place a lot of importance on biking. So it makes sense to have a garage to try and reduce the amount of bikes. The value added for people who use this is huge

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Pretty normal for the Netherlands.

No it can't. Hard to find the number of parking spots in the entire country, but there are something like 23 million bicycles in the Netherlands. It's not going to be even close.

We spent almost 4 billion euros per year on infrastructure. 65 million isn’t that much. Our infrastructure is top notch, there are very few places on earth that are comparable. That’s why our taxes are so extremely high.

Then I guess we better adapt or die as a species— AI is inevitable, just up to us to be ready for the better or worse of its fallouts

You have made those changes though? Do you eat meat? Live in single family housing? Spend a meaningful portion of your income on nonessentials? Have energy intensive hobbies such as PC gaming?

Those are the kinds of sacrifices I'd expect someone who is saying "not wanting to bike in the snow will be the end of us" to have already made.

This is different though. This is talking about creating something that thinks

That is no longer a tool or a weapon. That is something sentient to me.

How else was a 7000 space facility going to be built in that area? Its sleek, modern, and hidden away as infrastructure like that should. It's a 65M investment for something that should be around for 100 years

I’m sure they said the same thing about the internet— hell, I think when the nuke was invented. But we adapt and overcome as we always will. Besides, we really aren’t important enough for that level of interest. Vast majority of the world do basic jobs, go home, drink, watch tv, and sleep. Nothing of importance worth controlling

Is it? We’re currently in the midst of a climate crisis because people refuse to make changes that are inconvenient to them.

Cant wait for humanity to get wiped out because a vaccine designed by an AI has a kill-command designed in it that the AI can trigger whenever it wants.

Who's to say it's not a long-term release thing? Or is designed to only kill human biology? Or even worse, its designed to react to a signal that, if activated, kills the host. And we all carry around tiny transmitters in our pockets these days.

AI is the end of humanity, in one way or another. We already have it generating music for us and creating art for us with seemingly no effort to us. Now we have it creating our cures?

Humanity is doomed.

For a second I was like, who is Al?

Innovations in efficiency are always welcome, but one wonders about the downstream effects of quieter commercial drones.

The army's gonna be salivating about the prospect of spy drones that don't shriek like a giant mosquito, but anyone who doesn't want that happening at home would have cause to worry. You may also have wildlife issues if birds don't hear them coming and have a collision.

On the flipside, reducing the nuisance factor enough would make long-sought use cases like taco delivery or whatever much more tolerable.